University. Dapartment of Physical Education Keeping in Shape With the Times Attempting to serve the needs of Harding students, the Department of Physical Education added a major in Sports Management at the beginning of the fall semester. This major was designed to prepare students for the employment in the fields of sports broadcasting, sports writing, sports equipment sales, and health clubs and recreational programs management. the field events referee at the 1984 national track meet. He was a finalist in the selection process for the officials for the 1984 Olympics. Outstanding recognition came to several members of the department. Ted Lloyd was inducted into the NAlA Hall of Fame on May 25 at the NAIA Track and Field Championships in Charleston, WV I the highest honor bestowed upon any athlete or coach of the NAIA. Barbara Barnes was elected chairperson-elect of the intramural division of the Arkansas Association of Health , Physical Education, Recrea tion. She also received a Distinguished Teacher Award .at the May commencement. David Elliott, Phil Watkins, and Coach Lloyd were selected as AIC and District 17 NAIA Coach of the Year in tennis, golf, and cross country, respectively. Dick Johnson , Coach Elliott and Coach Lloyd served as chairman of the District 17 NAIA Committee for baseball, tennis, and cross country and track, respectively. Members of the department enhanced their backgrounds through graduate study, continuing education courses , or attendance at clinics and workshops. Kathryn Campbell prepared for the comprehensive examinations for the Ph. D. degree in health education at Texas Woman's University. Randy Tribble worked toward the M. Ed. degree from Harding. Ronnie Peacock completed certification requirements for teaching driver education. Dr. Wilt Martin, Butch Gardner, Coach Lloyd , and Dr. Olree participated in the computer workshops offered by Harding. In order to prepare students to certify as elementary physical education teachers, two new courses were added - Basic Movement and Gymnastics for Children and Rythmic Activities and Leadup Games for Children. Also, a recreational activity course was added that will enable the department to offer concentrated participation from time to time in some given sport. In the fall , it was bow hunting; in the spring, it was snow skiing. Dr. Karyl Bailey sponsored the Physical Education Majors and Minors Club and took 50 students to Colorado during spring recess for Members of the department continued to provide important leadership in various areas of physical education and health. Dr. Harry D. Olree , chairman of the department , served on the Board of Directors of the · National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. Dr. Olree also served as a member of NAIA Medical Aspects of Sports Committee and as the legislative representative of the American Alliance for Health , Physical Education , Recreation and Dance for the state of Arkansas. In April he was elected a fellow in the / AAHPER Research Consortium. Cliff Sharp served as the decathlon referee at the 1983 nat ional track meet of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and will be Two 1983 graduates with a major in physical education received excellent graduate assistantships. Hubie Smith who had led the golf team to four conference championships and had received Academic All-American recognition in both golf and basketball received a graduate assistantship in basketball at Memphis State University , working with Coach Dana Kirk. David Redding who was selected to the Academic All -American team in tennis and who was the recipiant of the Arthur Ashe Intercollegiate Tennis Award received a graduate assistantship at Southern Methodist Behind-the-Scenes Motivator The moving force behind the Bison spirit leaders, the behind-the-scenes motivator, the backbone of the Bison cheerleading organization was Barbara Barnes, an associate professor of physical education and one of the 1983 Distinguished Teachers of Harding University. As the cheerleader sponsor , the women's intramural sports' director and p.e. teacher, Mrs. Barnes often was in the public eye. Upon receiving the honor of distinguished teacher, which is based largely on the student evalua - tion , Mrs. Barnes said, ''I'm pretty surprised, shocked , but flattered because it carne from students; maybe I'm doing something right. " True, Mrs. Barnes must have been doing so~ething right to stay so busy and to do her job so well while rearing two children and caring for her husband, Jerome Barnes . Graduated from Harding with a BA in physical education in 1964, Mrs. Barnes immediately joined the Harding faculty and earned her MAT in 1972 from Harding. A teacher for 20 years, her established teaching goals, she said, were to make sure her students were interested and excited about learning and achieving their goals in her classes, in school in general, and in their lives. She said of her students, "Harding students are very speCial; they 're very tolerant. They give the teacher the benefit of the doubt. " More than that, they gave her the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1983 because with them she shared her enthusiasm and her devotion. And her no-glory behind-the-scenes job was no longer characterized by no glory. ~ Barbara Barnes, associate professor of Physical Education received one of three distinguished teacher awards given. - Leslie Downs 106 Physical Education I
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